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Kant and the Subject of Critique: On the Regulative Role of the Psychological Idea

By Avery Goldman

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
025335711X, 978-0-253-35711-3, 978-0-253-00540-3, 025300540X, 978-0-253-22366-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1456405 bytes)
Series
Studies in Continental Thought
Pages
249\263
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

Immanuel Kant is strict about the limits of self-knowledge: our inner sense gives us only appearances, never the reality, of ourselves. Kant may seem to begin his inquiries with an uncritical conception of cognitive limits, but in Kant and the Subject of Critique, Avery Goldman argues that, even for Kant, a reflective act must take place before any judgment occurs. Building on Kant’s metaphysics, which uses the soul, the world, and God as regulative principles, Goldman demonstrates how Kant can open doors to reflection, analysis, language, sensibility, and understanding. By establishing a regulative self, Goldman offers a way to bring unity to the subject through Kant’s seemingly circular reasoning, allowing for critique and, ultimately, knowledge.

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